[Aust-NZ] FW: AW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Academic Research on CrowdSourced Data [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:08:40 +1100
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Also:
http://www.geoinformatics.com/blog/in-the-spotlight/quality-assessment-of-volunteered-geographic-information-vgi

Cheers,
Hans-Jörg

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Von: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Keith Jenkins
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 19:23
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Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Academic Research on CrowdSourced Data

The following studies describes various methods of quantifying positional accuracy, completeness, etc.

Haklay (2010)  How good is volunteered geographical information?  A comparative study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey datasets.
http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=b35097

Cipeluch, et al. (2010)  Comparison of the accuracy of OpenStreetMap for Ireland with Google Maps and Bing Maps.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2476/

See also their bibliographies for more.

Cheers,
Keith


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) <David.Fawcett at state.mn.us> wrote:
> I am working on a demo app to 'harness the crowd' to improve locational data for features.
>
> My goal is to improve the data, but also to test multiple validation algorithms.  If anyone is aware of some good research on the evaluation/validation of crowd-sourced data, I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me to the source.
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> Thanks,
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> David.
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